There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.